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I don't remember ever seeing Goat Man before he was brought up here on the site, and I know zilch about the character. Nonetheless, I would be more than happy to add him to my collection. He fits in well with MOTU (then again, what really doesn't?), and especially with Skeletor's more beastly bunch (old bone head seems to have a monopoly on anthropomorphic animals as henchmen). And, as pointed out, he'd require precious little in the line of new tooling, so that should appeal to Mattel.

"I will use this power for all the good that can be done, to work for peace, to encourage virtue, and above all, to preserve life in all its forms..." Superman

Unless they seriously tone down the all too obvious Satanic overtones of this design (particularly the red color, which when used in combination with goat-like imagery is one of the most well-known representations of the Christian Devil), this would the only ever figure I would be totally passing on. I don't want my MotU world to be stained with Christian/religious imagery, let alone Satanic.

Unless they seriously tone down the all too obvious Satanic overtones of this design (particularly the red color, which when used in combination with goat-like imagery is one of the most well-known representations of the Christian Devil), this would the only ever figure I would be totally passing on. I don't want my MotU world to be stained with Christian/religious imagery, let alone Satanic.

Queen Angella is winged like an angel, of course; that's her name and "gimmick". But the fact is, she doesn't actually look like a typical representation of a Christian angel. She doesn't have an out-of-this-world angellic face with flowing silky hair, and doesn't wear long solemn white robes surrounded by a divine aura. Plus she is a female (Christian angels are prototypically males). It takes some imagination to visualize her as a "real" Christian angel (although her toy version seems to have a somewhat more "authentic" feel in this regard). In Filmation she looks more like an 80s girl-next-door with fake-looking wings and a combed-back "solid" hairdo, wearing a gaudy cyan-and-magenta leotard as if about to engage in some aerobics exercise (*).

(*) Which is the reason she's my least liked Filmation PoP gal design-wise. She doesn't have much of a regal, "queenly" feel to her. I would like her to look more like this:

Or even like this:

On the other hand, Goat Man does look too much like a prototypical representation of the Christian devil (an evil-looking horned guy in reddish colors, with cloven hooves as feet, often a goatee on the chin, and usually a pointy tail). It only takes the smallest step to visualize him as a "real" Christian devil/demon.

If at least he had a brownish face like a real goat instead of that "devil red". The goat-horned minion of Skeletor in New Adventures (bottom center in the picture below), in contrast, conveys no Satanic overtones whatsoever (if they made Goat Man more like this, I'd be totally OK with him).

As for NA Adam, I don't get it. Do you mean because the way he's dressed gives him a certain "Ancient Roman/Greek" vibe?

Unless they seriously tone down the all too obvious Satanic overtones of this design (particularly the red color, which when used in combination with goat-like imagery is one of the most well-known representations of the Christian Devil), this would the only ever figure I would be totally passing on. I don't want my MotU world to be stained with Christian/religious imagery, let alone Satanic.